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Is coronavirus the end of the European project?

Public Interventions | Events | 16-05-2020

Maria da Graça Carvalho participated in a virtual debate organized by Cambridge Union entitled "Is Covid-19 the end of the European project?". Panellists at the debate included as well the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Vince Cable, the Europe Editor for  The Financial Times  Ben Hall, and Director of Italy’s Istituto Affari Internazionali Nathalie Tocci.  In the debate, Maria da Graça Carvalho stated that Covid-19 would not damage the EU and that, on the contrary, the pandemic...

Macro-financial assistance to enlargement and neighbourhood partners in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis [PT]

Work in Parliament | Explanations of Vote | 15-05-2020

A actual situação de crise que se vive devido ao surto de COVID-19 tem tido um forte impacto na dimensão e na natureza das necessidades que requerem apoio orçamental urgente por parte da União Europeia. A proposta da Comissão visa conceder assistência macrofinanceira (AMF) no montante total de 3 mil milhões de euros a 10 países do alargamento e da vizinhança que enfrentam uma crise da balança de pagamentos: Albânia, Bósnia e Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, República da Macedônia do ...

Temporary measures concerning the general meetings of European companies (SE) and of European Cooperative Societies (SCE) [PT]

Work in Parliament | Explanations of Vote | 14-05-2020

A pandemia de COVID-19 tem graves repercussões nas sociedades e nas sociedades cooperativas, incluindo as Sociedades Europeias e as Sociedades Cooperativas Europeias. Em particular, devido às medidas de confinamento e de distanciamento social, bem como à necessidade de concentrar esforços na gestão das restrições da atividade económica, as SE e as SCE enfrentam dificuldades consideráveis no tocante ao cumprimento do prazo de realização da sua assembleia geral referido no artigo54.º dos respeti...

A safety net to protect the beneficiaries of EU programmes: setting up an MFF contingency plan (A9-0099/2020 - Jan Olbrycht, Margarida Marques) [PT]

Work in Parliament | Explanations of Vote | 13-05-2020

Os constantes atrasos no Acordo com o Conselho Europeu evidenciam um elevado risco de que não se alcance um acordo sobre o próximo Quadro Financeiro Plurianual (QFP) a tempo de este entrar em vigor em 1 de janeiro de 2021 e de que não se consiga uma transição harmoniosa do QFP 2014-2020 para o QFP 2021-2027. A actual crise sanitária resultante do surto de Covid-19 e os impactos socioeconómicos sem precedentes na vida dos cidadãos tornam ainda mais premente a necessidade de eliminar qualque...

EPP ITRE Hearing on "2030 Climate and Energy Targets in light of the COVID-19 crisis"

Agenda | 12-05-2020

EPP IMCO, ITRE, ENVI, LIBE and JURI Hearing on "COVID-19 tracing applications: what is really at stake?"

Agenda | 12-05-2020

MEPs want to give EIT fresh leeway to tackle pandemic fallout

Press | News | 07-05-2020

Parliament is working on new amendments to legal framework of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology which are to be voted in the industry committee by the end June By Florin Zubașcu New amendments by MEPs Maria da Graça Carvalho and Marisa Matias are to give a nimbler legal framework for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to respond to the coronavirus crisis. The MEPs say the amendments call on EIT’s eight public-private partnerships, the Knowledge and...

K4I Forum Governing Board resumes activities and plans actions for the upcoming months

Search Results | Knowledge4Innovation | 29-04-2020

In her quality of chair, Maria da Graça Carvalho attended today the Governing Board of the Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) Forum of the European Parliament. This was the first remote meeting of the K4I Governing Board since coronavirus lockdown began and aimed at resuming activities and planning specific actions for the upcoming months. The remote meeting gathered more than 30 participants, including Members of the European Parliament and representatives of the member organisations. At the end of ...

K4I Forum Governing Board remote meeting

Work in Parliament | Meetings | 29-04-2020

In her quality of chair, Maria da Graça Carvalho attended today the Governing Board of the Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) Forum of the European Parliament. This was the first remote meeting of the K4I Governing Board since coronavirus lockdown began and aimed at resuming activities and planning specific actions for the upcoming months. The remote meeting gathered more than 30 participants, including Members of the European Parliament and representatives of the member organisations. At the end of ...

EIT: Maria da Graça Carvalho wants to improve COVID-19 response through Health and Digital KICs

Search Results | Report: European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) | 28-04-2020

Maria da Graça Carvalho announced today a package of amendments aimed at improving the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's (EIT) response capacity to the coronavirus crisis, in particular through the Health and Digital Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The amendments, presented to the members of the ITRE - Industry, Research and Energy - Committee, are included in the legislative report on the EIT's strategic agenda, to which the MEP is rapporteur, and will be ...

COVID-19: PSD MEPs present 7 projects to help overcome the crisis

Work in Parliament | Other Activities | 28-04-2020

PSD MEPs presented seven proposals for innovative policy initiatives, to be funded by the European Union (EU) budget for 2021. These pilot projects focus on agriculture, support for nursing homes, restaurants, digitization of education and training, internet access for the most deprived families, crisis management in the tourism sector and promoting renewable energies in the real estate sector. Pilot projects and preparatory actions are tools introduced in the EU budget that aim to test new ...

Covid-19: Maria Graça Carvalho wants to improve response in Health and in the Digital

Press | News | 28-04-2020

Maria Graça Carvalho announced a package of amendments directed to improving the response capability of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), Dinheiro Vivo Online reports. The amendments were introduced over the proposal of the European Commission and have received the support of all political families in the European Parliament. In a public statement, the MEP stated: “We respect the EIT and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), but we believe that, in the pr...

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